TRAVEL ASSOCIATION SIGNS CLARK GEDULDIG: The U.S. Travel Association has hired Clark Geduldig Cranford & Nielsen to work on travel issues to and within the United States. Spokeswoman Cathy Keefe said the firm will lobby on general travel advocacy issues for the trade association, which works to promote the travel industry and remove barriers to travel. Keefe said U.S. Travel is not currently working on issues related to the no-fly list, which was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge in Oregon on Tuesday. The firm’s Steve Clark, Sam Geduldig, Jay Cranford, Mike Nielsen, Amy Wren and Gary Lytle will work on the account. The association has four other active registrations and spent $570,000 lobbying in the first quarter, including $430,000 in-house. Clark Geduldig also was hired by ATG Americas Trading Group S.A.

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GOOD THURSDAY AFTERNOON where it’s been 40 years to the day since the first grocery store scanned a Universal Product Code barcode. On June 26, 1974, Clyde Dawson purchased some Wrigley's Juicy Fruit — among other items — at a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The cashier scanned the 67 cent pack of gum — the result of years work by grocery trade associations to create a universal system of product tracking for food. Send lobbying news, gossip, tips and scoops to btau@politico.com. And keep up with PI on Twitter by following @ByronTau or @PoliticoPI.

GREENBERG ADDS SECOND SQUIRE PATTON PARTNER: Another Squire Patton Boggs partner has joined Greenberg Traurig’s government contracts and projects practice, the firm announced Thursday. Michael Schaengold will be co-chairman of the Government Contracts & Projects practice at Greenberg along with Robert Brams. Both men are Patton Boggs veterans. It’s the latest example of a rival law firm and lobbying shop using the chaotic merger between Patton Boggs and Squire Sanders to add to their own legal and lobbying depth and talent. Akin Gump, Holland & Knight, Jones Day, Nelson Mullins and others have picked up significant Patton Boggs talent in the wake of the June merger. In some cases, entire practice groups have packed up and left the merged firm. Squire Patton has insisted that the firm is healthy and that many of its core lobbyists and practice groups were in excellent shape.

ALSO: A veteran lobbyist at an independent firm found that some Squire Patton Boggs employees were browsing his firm's website. The lobbyist found IP addresses from Squire Patton in his firm’s website analytics logs. Was someone at the firm just prepping for a big consultant meeting, looking to poach some business or on the hunt for talent around town?

NEXTERA TAPS O’CONNOR: NextEra Energy has hired Kathleen O’Connor as manager of governmental affairs. She starts her new gig next Monday. She’s a 10-year veteran of both Congress and the White House. She worked for House Speaker Dennis Hastert, House Whip Roy Blunt and in the White House for the Office of Legislative Affairs. She also did a stint with outgoing Majority Leader Eric Cantor. She comes to NextEra from Oxbow Carbon, where she also served as manager of government affairs.

FORD HOSTS NATS PARK MUSTANG CELEBRATION: In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Mustang, automaker Ford set up two 2015 Mustangs in the Center Field Plaza at Nationals Park — one red and one blue — for fans attending Wednesday’s Congressional Baseball Game. The company — a sponsor of the event — encouraged attendees to take photos and show their support on social media for either the #MustangRed or the #MustangBlue. Proceeds of the game went to the Washington Literacy Council; Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington; and the Washington Nationals Dream Foundation.

TOGORUN PROMOTES THREE: Health care strategic communications firm TogoRun has announced three promotions. Anne Woodbury, who manages the D.C. office of TogoRun, has been promoted to senior partner. And the firm has also promoted Banks Willis and Angeline McCarthy to partner. Willis works on brand positioning, public affairs and media relations. McCarthy leads TogoRun’s Los Angeles office.

GROUPS PIGGYBACK ON AEREO RULING TO PUSH THEIR OWN AGENDA: Via POLITICO’s Morning Tech on the fallout after the Supreme Court ruled against the streaming TV service Aereo: The American Television Alliance, a front group for cable and satellite companies, said the decision in Aereo is just one more example of why there needs to be retransmission consent reform. “The decision is a reminder that broadcasters are interested in only one thing — protecting their government-sanctioned monopolies,” they said in a statement. And music groups, fighting for radio royalties in Congress, saw some irony in the broadcaster’s Supreme Court win. “In their radio business, NAB members commit the exact sin that they condemn in Aereo — they use music as the foundation of their programming, yet refuse to pay the artists and labels who created the music a cent,” said Ted Kalo, musicFIRST Coalition’s executive director.

** More than 100 Members of the House and every U.S. senator agree — insurance companies must not be treated like banks — especially when setting appropriate capital standards. H.R. 4510 will help prevent bank capital rules from being inappropriately imposed on insurers. Learn more at www.acli.com. **

DEFENSE INDUSTRY NIGHTMARE: CHAIRMAN MCCAIN: POLITICO’s Jeremy Herb has this story: “There’s at least one reason some in the defense industry are rooting for Democrats to keep control of the Senate: the prospect of Chairman John McCain. Should Republicans take back the upper chamber in this fall’s midterm elections, McCain is in line to lead the Senate Armed Services Committee, a worrisome notion for many contractors who feel he unfairly targets them. The Arizona Republican has gained a reputation as a stubborn bulldog, unwilling to let go of an issue once he sinks his teeth into it and deeply suspicious of many of the companies who sell to the military. “I’m sure that many of them are very nervous,” he told POLITICO. “If I were them, I would be.” http://politi.co/1iJYyy7

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PATTON’S UPS AND DOWNS: Kevin Williamson writes a long piece in the National Review about the rise and fall of Patton Boggs — pinning the firm’s decline on its compensation model, business culture and an ill-advised lawsuit against Chevron. “Patton Boggs, a felled giant with its metaphorical tail tucked firmly between its legal legs, merged with a competitor, Squire Sanders, and some genius decided that the new firm would have the goofy quasi-medieval name ‘Squire Patton Boggs,’” Williamson writes. The piece is here — but it will cost you a micropayment of 25 cents to read: http://bit.ly/1nHPOWM

CANTOR LEADERSHIP AIDES DOING COFFEES, LUNCH: “The Virginia Republican’s leadership aides will be out of work by the end of July, setting off a job-search effort that Cantor and his chief of staff, Steve Stombres, have helped spearhead since Cantor lost on June 10. ‘Obviously there has been a lot more coffee drunk and lunches eaten than before that primary,’ K Street recruiter Ivan Adler of the McCormick Group told CQ Roll Call. ‘No doubt that people are now reaching out to their librarians and bartenders and rabbis to seek advice.’” CQ-Roll Call’s Kate Ackley has this report: http://bit.ly/1jR1uUx

OUT TODAY — POLITICO Magazine’s LATEST ISSUE — The award-winning magazine debuts its campaign season issue with a special report on money, politics and power in the midst of the New Gilded Age, including a look at the challenges of being gay and Republican in the Bush administration, insight from a Nobel Prize-winning economist and a profile of Obama’s controversial attorney general. Read now: http://politi.co/1u8lQjN

NEW JOINT FUNDRAISING COMMITTEES (Members of the JFC):

None

NEW PAC REGISTRATIONS:

Citizens for a Better Government (PAC)

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas Inc PAC (PAC)

National League of Taxpayer PAC (PAC)

NEW LOBBYING REGISTRATIONS: (Firm: Client)

American Association of Orthopaedic Executives: American Association of Orthopaedic Executives

Capitol Counsel: American Veterinary Medical Association

Capitol Counsel: LocusPoint Networks

Carmen Group Incorporated: Joshua Harman

Cengage Learning: Cengage Learning

Christy Ellerbee Consulting: Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Clark Geduldig Cranford & Nielsen: ATG Americas Trading Group S.A.

Clark Geduldig Cranford & Nielsen: U.S. Travel Association

Cornerstone Government Affairs: CERMAR Investments

Federal Science Partners: General Capacitor LLC

Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock: Share Our Strength

Gray & Oscar: Alpha-Liberty Joint Venture

Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman: Genesis Health System

Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman: Munson Medical Center

Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman: The Carle Foundation

King & Spalding: Terphane

Liebman & Associates: CPS Energy

Park Strategies: Asia Pacific Resort & Entertainment Limited

Robison International: Precise Systems

Student Veterans of America: Student Veterans of America

NEW LOBBYING TERMINATIONS (Firm: Client (Type of Termination))

Capital Enterprise Associates: United States Business and Industry Council (Q2 termination)

** Insurance Capital Standards — a Bipartisan Priority. On June 3, the Senate passed S. 2270 by unanimous consent to allow the Federal Reserve Board the flexibility to apply insurance-based capital standards to insurance companies. More than 100 Members of the House have joined in support of H.R. 4510 to make the insurance capital standards bill an urgent, bipartisan priority. Learn more about this issue that unites the Obama administration, Democrats and Republicans in the House and the Senate, state and federal regulators, and private industry. www.acli.com. **